 For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality. |
| If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do. |
| I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point. |
| If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing. |
| It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that. |
| But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep. |
| The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. |
| Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. |
| I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so. |
| Trends don't mean very much. |
| In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. |
| I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts. |
| There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. |
| I think you create your own hipness. |
| Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music. |
| I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done. |
| Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody. |
| There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned. |
| I'm not angry at anyone. |
| If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music. |
